Comanche book shows the savage that they were

Lionel Wagner

   I vividly remember the Comanches from a previous life and whether that was an ally or enemy of this powerful tribe I do not recall. There are many books of this contentious tribe of Texas Indians  who were often raiding and killing on the Texas Plaines. Emerging as the most vicious and cunning tribes of the plaines the Comaches made life treacherous for many foes  in the Southwest. TR Fehrenback gives a fabulous look in the history of the Comanches with a book simply called "Comanches" and gives an account t of the rise of weapons and horses o to the plaines that totally altered Native American life and structure.  As the Comanches mastered warfare and the horse expanding their range with genocidal victories over the Apache the conflict with the Spanish heated up as Tench power was wanning In North America.  Freubach gives a great history of the rise of the Comanche and the beginning of their border depredations with their sacking of the San Saba mission. The disastrous Colonel Parillas campaign to the Red river and attack the Comanche is recounted as a often forgotten battle of history.

 This was not Cortez's Spanish army anymore andntheSpanish and their allies retreated like mules at the onslaught of Comanche power. This slowed the Spanish settlements in the area that was ow being called Texas as Indians rode the frontiers for years threatening more settlements from time to time. The cultural life and deth struggle would play out e tween these two cultures for a century as Anglos e came a third player in this region.